Dying Wishes: Understanding Advance Medical Directives from the Malaysian and Islamic Law Perspectives

Dying with dignity - advance directives.

Dying with dignity – advance directives To the Editor: We may be grateful to Dr Larsen for drawing our attention to the recent launch of Dignity SA.1 Dignity SA aims to support the provision of palliative care plus an option of legalised assisted dying; their website is http://dignitysa.com/. In this aim, they reflect the UK organisation: Dignity in Dying, with its years of experience and their...

Law, autonomy and advance directives.

The principle of autonomy underpins legal regulation of advance directives that refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. The primacy of autonomy in this domain is recognised expressly in the case law, through judicial pronouncement, and implicitly in most Australian jurisdictions, through enactment into statute of the right to make an advance directive. This article seeks to justify autonomy a...

Advance directives: navigating conflicts between expressed wishes and best interests.

www.aafp.org/afp Volume 91, Number 7 ◆ April 1, 2015 Case Scenario L.S. is a 70-year-old man with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He is intubated and unconscious in the intensive care unit with pneumonia complicated further by acute renal failure. His advance directive, completed seven years ago when he was highly functional, indicates that he wants lifesustaining treatments. He...

The growing importance of advance medical directives.

Advance directives and the family: French and American perspectives.

Several studies have explored differences between North American and European doctor-patient relationships. They have focused primarily on differences in philosophical traditions and historic and socio-economic factors between these two regions that might lead to differences in behaviour, as well as divergent concepts in and justifications of medical practice. However, few empirical intercultur...